11 I say then, Have they stumbled in such a manner that they should fall completely? No, in no wise; but rather through their fall, saving health is come unto the Gentiles to provoke them unto jealousy. 12 And if the fall of them is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their fullness be?
13 For (I call you Gentiles) inasmuch as I am truly the apostle of the Gentiles, my honorable ministry, 14 if in any manner I may provoke my nation to jealousy and cause some of them to be saved. 15 For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the firstfruit is holy, so shall the rest be; and if the root is holy, so shall be the branches.
17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them and hath been made participant of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, know that thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. 20 Good; because of their unbelief they were broken off, but thou by faith art standing. Do not be highminded, but fear 21 that if God did not forgive the natural branches, neither shall he forgive thee. 22 Behold, therefore, the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness if thou continue in his goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And even them, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is powerful enough to graft them in again. 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and wert grafted contrary to nature into the good olive tree, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?